comedian john melendez saide was pretending to be senator bob me me.hite house will not confirm if it is the president. take a listen. >> we have some great choices. be done over the next 12 to 14 days. >> immigration also allegedly came up in this so called prank call. tonight the real senator says in part, i welcome any opportunity to have a real conversation with the president on how to uphold the american values that havegu ed our family based immigration policy for the past century. if the president was pranked, just how did that call get through? this couldepresent major security breach at the highest level. >> all right. thank you. >>> now to verifiedrm new inion about the future of the supreme court. president trump announcing he will make his pick public a week from monday. n fiveinees on the short list including two women. mr. trump may be meeting with a couple of candates this ekend at his estate in new jersey. the president siz he will not ask the nominee about same-sex marriage or about whether they would overturn roe v wade. s>>> the fave

john melendez said he was pretending to b senator m menend menendez.his actually happened. >>> folks are traveling for the fourth o july. aaa predicting tuesday will best the wor time on th roads. 250 east, the beltway, i-95, al expected congested. along with the trafficeshot temperatoming around here. >>> definitely hot temperatures. the temperatures are going to be in the mid to upper 90s today, tomorrow, and monday. close to 100 degrees. it'll feel pretty warm out othere. close 105 over the next two days. >> folks need to hratement that' -- hydrate for sure. that'll do it for "news 4 today." we'll be back in 25 minutes for a local new update. join us at 9:00 for a full hour of your news and weather. >> our hearts go out to them. we'll be thinking of them as we move forward. we wish them they best as t try to deal with their grief. >> in our world, we'll just remember them as irreplaceable. a charismatic presence in our lives. >> absolute love and pridey in >> absolute love and pridey in husband, that i feel the need jardiance asked: when it comes to

comedian john melendez, aka, stuttering john, released audio of what he said was his exchange with thes the president available? >> yup, one moment, sir. i'll connect your call. sir, your call is connected. >> hi, bob. >> hey, how are you? >> how are you? congratulations on everything, we're proud of you. congratulations, great job. you went through a tough, tough situation, and i don't think a very fair situation. but congratulations. >> short time ago, i had a chance to speak with john melendez, being the comedian. there are lots of questions about white house security and protocols as a result of this. walk us through how this came about. the "new york times" saying the president of the united states would seem to be a long shot target here for somebody hoping to make a prank phone call. how did you decide to do this? how did you decide it might be doable? >> well, you know, just given the fact of how disorganized the trump administration has been from the get-go, i mean, what other, you know -- administration would be susceptible to be duped so easily. me and my producer said, let'

stuttering john melendez to the list of things we never thought we'd be discussing when covering this administration. we've reached out to the white house for comments. they have not publicly saidt this phone call nor confirmed its authenticity. >> it is so bizarre. boris sanchez, thank you for filling in some of the mysterious gaps in that story for us. >>> now, the president this weekend is focusing on his next supreme court nominee. justice kennedy's announcement that he is retiring came as a shock to some, but not to others.81 is one of the oldest justices on the supreme court second only to ruth bader ginsburg. tom foreman explains why age is more than just a number when it comes to supreme court justices. >> reporter: when you look closely at the ages of the sitting justices, you begin to understand why this change is so momentous. so let's start by rearranging everyone in order of their age. and you can see that down here we have ruth bader ginsburg at 85, justice kennedy almost 82, and then comes breyer and thomas and alito, sotomayor, the chief justice john roberts is here, and then kagan and last but not least neil gorsuch. now let's put those appointed by democratic

john melendez talking about how his presidential prank goes down. >> i get a call and it is jared kushner. i know it is jared, i am a political news junky. it was definitely him. he saidglish accent. i'm like yes, how are you doing jared, he said i can get the president out of his meeting now and call him back in a few minutes. i said please have him call me back. i knew i had to call my friend in new york to record it. now i'm getting nervous. i'm like this kane can't be happening. sure enough 20 minutes later, and then i answered with my bad long island accent. i was like let me get the senator on the phone. i was like bob, i want to congratulate you. i didn't even know he was in any legal problems. if they would have asked me what party affiliation he had or what state he represented, i would have been stumped, i had no idea. i don't know anything about senate e me lor melendez. >> i want to bring in samantha, you worked for president obama. i know you have been the person that has to patch through the calls to air force one. is it easier for something like this to happen than we may think? >> no, tons of prank calls come in every day, and they go through a process